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bug#38821: Can't run guix from external drive.
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From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
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bug#38821: Can't run guix from external drive. |
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Date: |
Wed, 08 Jan 2020 10:58:56 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Jan <address@hidden> skribis:
> On Thu, 02 Jan 2020 19:37:43 +0100
> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>
>> It most likely means that the current working directory,
>> /media/user/Backup, was unmounted or somehow disappeared in the
>> meantime.
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>> Can you confirm that this is the case?
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>> Thanks,
>> Ludo’.
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> Yes, it only happens, if the disk is unmounted. Is that normal? If it
> is, then a message telling what's wrong would be helpful.
This issue is not specific to Guix: the ‘getcwd’ function fails if the
current working directory has been unmounted behind the back of the
calling process. IOW, another program would fail similar in these
circumstances. I don’t think there’s much that can be done.
Thanks,
Ludo’.